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and want to give me $75 instead of the $100. If anyone has any tips on who to complain to get the full value I'm all ears, because I seriously consider everything except for the latch issue (which could've happened in traffic) "reasonable wear and tear"

I might try a BBB complaint since none of these issues were explicitly mentioned in the T&Cs as devaluation criteria.

Edit: a simple e-mail disagreeing with the value mentioning a possible BBB complaint was responded in a few hours and they met my counter offer of $90 for the trade-in, so they were reasonable... so definitely reply back with an e-mail to the help@tradeuptotouch.com if you feel your valuation was unreasonable.

Finally I got an email and they approved my old 8.9 inch Acer Aspire One for the full $100.00. I think mine held charge for at least 30 minutes and it was in a pretty good condition.

I ended up snaking the aux antenna around the ssd, then up and across the battery, taping it just inside the right speaker (as to avoid the metal shielding around the cpu). I ran the computer and did a test skype call with the laptop bottom removed and the computer vertical to the ground. I walked down the hallway (~35ft) and the audio was crystal clear. After re-securing the bottom back onto the computer...I could hardly walk out of the room before the audio began to cut out. For near ranging purposes everything works great. I think this is as good as it gets unless attempting to route behind the screen.

All computers have radio interference shielding around the electronics to comply with the FCC rules.
The bottom cover has shielding with an extra shield on the inside of the cover around the cpu.
That's one of the reasons notebook WiFi antennas are placed under the top cover, behind the LCD.

You placed your antenna in the most optimal place, next to the speaker screen opening in the right side and away from all the cpu shielding and any cpu radio wave interference.
The small speaker screen opening will provide an unshielded pathway for the radio waves.
You can't do any better than that, absent of installing it behind the lcd, but taking the lcd apart in the S200e is very risky and most attempts to do that will probably damage the notebook. For almost all of us it is just not worth it.

So, you placed the gold antenna square right next to/near the 6235, right?

and want to give me $75 instead of the $100. If anyone has any tips on who to complain to get the full value I'm all ears, because I seriously consider everything except for the latch issue (which could've happened in traffic) "reasonable wear and tear"

I might try a BBB complaint since none of these issues were explicitly mentioned in the T&Cs as devaluation criteria.

Edit: a simple e-mail disagreeing with the value mentioning a possible BBB complaint was responded in a few hours and they met my counter offer of $90 for the trade-in, so they were reasonable... so definitely reply back with an e-mail to the help@tradeuptotouch.com if you feel your valuation was unreasonable.

I submitted an Apple Powebook G4 that I though was in pretty good condition. They reduced the valuation from $200 to $150 on the basis of:

I followed your lead (thank you!) and submitted a reply quoting the T&C and submitting pictures I had taken, also mentioned BBB, and countered $180. I was missing 1 feet cushion and they showed me a picture of a very minor crack at one of the screws in the housing, but they also accepted my counteroffer. They did state:

"The terms and conditions you have quoted were recently updated at the start of this week as a result many of our claims have not yet been adjusted in reflection of this. Additionally at the time you received the original revaluation email these changes had not been placed into effect."

"The terms and conditions you have quoted were recently updated at the start of this week as a result many of our claims have not yet been adjusted in reflection of this. Additionally at the time you received the original revaluation email these changes had not been placed into effect."

What is disturbing is they are changing their T&Cs after the fact.

Wow, that is disturbing indeed... I hadn't noticed they had actually changed the T&Cs! Good thing I sent both of my claims early.

They even screwed up the first claim... ended up sending me $75... I had to e-mail them again and told them that the whole promotion was a disaster and asked for the full $100 and they said they'd send me another $25 prepaid card.. We'll see... They are reasonably fast in responding to e-mails at least...

Then I just used the WiDi built into Win8.1 (new to Win8.1), which is accessible via the Windows Charms menu (right side swipe), selected Devices, selected Project, selected Netgear PTV2000 that I got FAR from another SD.